Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use. A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some estimate over a million such "orphan wells" still ...

There are hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in the U.S. These orphaned wells, most of them uncapped, create significant emissions and pose safety risks. Plugging the wells ...